Friday, October 26, 2012

New York police officer charged with plan to cook, eat women

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City police officer was charged on Thursday with conspiring to kidnap, torture, cook and eat women whose names he kept in a list on his computer.

Gilberto Valle III, 28, of Forest Hills, Queens, was arrested on Wednesday by the FBI, a spokesman for the agency said.

In a criminal complaint unsealed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, Valle was charged with conspiring to cross state lines to kidnap and with illegally accessing a federal database.

The complaint said investigators had uncovered a file on Valle's computer containing the names and pictures of at least 100 women, as well as the addresses and physical descriptions of some of them.

The complaint said that Valle had undertaken surveillance of some of the women at their work and at their home.

In an excerpt of a July conversation with an unnamed co-conspirator, Valle is quoted in the complaint as saying: "I can just show up at her home unannounced, it will not alert her, and I can knock her out, wait until dark and kidnap her right out of her home."

"I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus... cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible." The woman in question is identified only as "Victim 1."

Valle was not charged with carrying out any of the alleged planned attacks, according to the charges, suggesting he was arrested before any of the targeted women were harmed.

A lawyer for Valle could not immediately be identified.

A spokesman for the New York Police Department could not immediately be reached for comment.

(Reporting By Basil Katz; Additional Reporting by Chris Francescani; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

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Snooki: I?m Trading Club Life for Crib Time

"I feel like now I have a family," she shares, noting that every time she sees her baby boy she gets emotional and wants to cry. "Life changed ? I love it."

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Study: Cancer patients overestimate value of chemo

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Gene polymorphisms identified that are responsible for breast density and cancer risk

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2012) ? It has long been known that breast density, or mammographic density, is a strong risk factor for breast cancer, and that estrogen and progestin hormone therapy increases dense breast tissue. Now, a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research has identified several gene variants in hormone metabolism and growth factor pathways that may be associated with breast density and, hence, breast cancer risk.

Mammographic density relates to the fact that x-rays permeate different types of breast tissue in different ways, leading to white areas on the mammogram. Fatty tissue appears on the mammogram as relatively translucent, whereas dense breast tissue contains more stromal tissue and epithelial cells, appearing as white areas. Women with a breast density of 75% or more have a 4-5 times higher risk of developing breast cancer than women of the same age with little or no density.

Controversy exists over why breast density is a cancer risk. Many studies suggest that density is at least partially inherited, and twin studies show that genetic factors do play a role in the variation observed. Breast density decreases naturally with older age and menopause, but also increases with hormone therapy. Merete Ellingjord-Dale and co-authors, from academic centers in Norway and Los Angeles, set out to investigate which genes could play a role in determining breast density. Because of the clear involvement of hormones, they were looking particularly for genes involved in hormone metabolism.

Using data from 2,036 women who participated in the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Program in 2004, and separating the participants into hormone therapy users and non-users, the authors found that different gene variants appeared to be important depending on the women's hormone therapy usage.

There was evidence to suggest that variants in the prolactin (PRL) gene were associated with breast density in users of estrogen and progestin, as well as norethisterone acetate (a common regimen in Nordic countries). In non-users of hormone therapy, variants in the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and SULT1A1/2 genes were significantly associated with breast density.

The findings suggest that several genes in hormone metabolism and growth factor pathways are indeed implicated in determining breast density, and might increase breast cancer risk. Commenting on the findings, lead author, Merete Ellingjord-Dale said, "One reason it has been so difficult to pinpoint which genes are responsible for mammographic density is that the effect of some genetic variants may be amplified in combination with hormone therapy. Consequently in the presence of hormone therapy these genes cause increased density."

She continued, "It is important to consider both the genetic and non-genetic factors simultaneously. Exploring the functional role of gene variants associated with mammographic density could further clarify the biological mechanisms involved. "

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  1. Merete Ellingjord-Dale, Eunjung Lee, Elisabeth Couto, Ali Ozhand, Samera A Qureshi, Solveig Hofvind, David J Van Den Berg, Lars A Akslen, Tom Grotmol and Giske Ursin. Polymorphisms in hormone metabolism and growth factor genes and mammographic density in Norwegian postmenopausal hormone therapy users and non-users. Breast Cancer Research, 2012 (in press) [link]

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Pregnancy from rape 'something God intended' - GOP candidate

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Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Tuesday when a woman is impregnated during a rape, "that's something God intended."

Mourdock, who's been locked in a tight race with Democratic challenger Rep. Joe Donnelly, was asked during the final minutes of a debate whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.

"I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God. And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," Mourdock said.

The race between Mourdock and Donnelly has been one of the nation's most expensive - and most watched - Senate races since the Republican unseated veteran U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in May's GOP primary.

A spokeswoman for Mitt Romney says the GOP presidential hopeful disagrees with Mourdock?s comments about rape and pregnancy.

Andrea Saul said Tuesday in an email to The Associated Press that Mourdock's comments "do not reflect" Romney's views.

Mourdock's comments come two months after embattled Missouri GOP Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said during a television interview that women's bodies have ways of preventing pregnancy in cases of what he called "legitimate rape."

Since his comment, Akin has repeatedly apologized but has refused to leave his race despite calls to do so by leaders of his own party, from GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on down. It was not clear what affect, if any, Mourdock's comment might have during the final two weeks before the Nov. 6 election.

But it quickly placed the tea party-backed candidate on the defensive, one day after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came to Indianapolis for a fundraiser and after the campaign released a spot from Romney asking Hoosiers to support Mourdock.

Indiana Republican Party spokesman Pete Seat referred comment to the Mourdock campaign. A spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee and a spokeswoman for Romney did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday night.

National Democrats quickly picked up on Mourdock's statement and used it as an opportunity to paint him as an extreme candidate, calling him a tea party "zealot."

Mourdock further explained after the debate he did not believe God intended the rape, but that God is the only one who can create life.

"Are you trying to suggest somehow that God preordained rape, no I don't think that," Mourdock said. "Anyone who would suggest that is just sick and twisted. No, that's not even close to what I said."

In response, Donnelly said after the debate in southern Indiana that he doesn't believe "my God, or any God, would intend that to happen."

Mourdock's ad featuring Romney started airing Monday and is the latest effort to break open the Senate race. Republicans need to gain three seats, or four if President Barack Obama wins re-election, and seats that were predicted to remain or turn Republican have grown uncertain.

Top Republicans have been flocking to Indiana. Arizona Sen. John McCain and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham campaigned for Mourdock last week, and New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte is due in the state Wednesday.

Romney's coattails carry special significance in deeply conservative Indiana, where Mourdock has underperformed Romney by 12 points in most public polls. Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS also has bought another $1 million of airtime in Indiana, making his group the biggest player in Indiana's Senate race. A message left for Crossroads GPS spokesman Nate Hodson was not immediately returned.

More recently, Mourdock, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress three times before becoming state treasurer, has been trying to woo moderate voters as Donnelly has played up his moderate, three-term voting record in the House.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Motorola Droid Bionic Ice Cream Sandwich update now rolling out

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Long-suffering Motorola Droid Bionic owners, your Ice Cream Sandwich update has finally arrived. The Bionic, which has languished on Gingerbread since its release last fall, is today being bumped up to Android 4.0.4 via an over-the-air upgrade.

Reports from the Android Central forums indicate that the Bionic ICS update is now being sent out the masses, following a short soak test.

Unfortunately, it looks like the phone isn't on Motorola's Jelly Bean update roadmap, so Bionic owners will be running 4.0.4 for the foreseeable future. Regardless, ICS is a significant step up from Gingerbread, so Bionic owners will want to grab it right away.

If you're still rocking a bionic, hit the comments let us know how you're getting on with today's update.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

A Strange Review: Seven Psychopaths ? Strange Herring

Here?s the problem with something called Seven Psychopaths: you pay your ransom of a ticket, another $350 for confections, you sit through more movie trailers than there are actual vehicular trailers, you try and glean the dialogue through all the whispering and giggling and texting and sexting, and you walk out the door thinking to yourself ?

There was one psychopath too many.

But then again, what can?t you say that about? You go to work. You go to a wedding. You go to a baptism. And you walk out thinking ?

There was one psychopath too many.

Nevertheless, I thought to my own self, how bad could this film be? I mean, it has Christopher Walken. And psychopaths. And the writer-director is the brilliant Martin McDonagh, author of the terrifying The Beauty Queen of Leenane as well as the award-winning screenplay In Bruges. As some of you know from my references elsewhere on this blog, I love Irish and Irish-American drama ? Synge, O?Neill, O?Casey. (Forget Shaw, Goldsmith, and Sheridan, whose Anglo roots or pretensions ruined them.)

The?real?Irish took the language that was foisted upon them, kneaded it through the crucible of their history, and sent it back into the world carrying the burden of their dreams, re-tuned with an incantatory lilt that is unmistakable and immediately identifiable. At their best, the Irish rank with the ancient Athenians in their ability to amplify a sense of almost preternatural foreboding, as if the ceiling were about to crash down on your head; the oppressive affliction that can be both family and faith; the weight of an ineluctable and evil fate.

At it?s best, Irish drama will mess you up for life.

And McDonagh is true to his heritage, crafting characters whose lives are forever soiled by choices thrust upon them, or bad juju fed to them with their mother?s milk. Who better to write about psychopaths?

You could say it?s the Psychopath?s Moment in the culture. We have Anders Breivik and KSM and Dexter and the elections. There?s even a new book out called The Wisdom of Psychopaths. This guy over at the Daily Beast delivers this flatfooted assessment:

The science behind all of this is fairly intuitive. Psychopathic traits have been given the Darwinian OK throughout the history of human evolution, which helps validate Dutton?s argument that these qualities can be pretty important tools if properly used. The ?seven deadly wins? of psychopathy that he identifies (ruthlessness, charm, focus, mental toughness, fearlessness, mindfulness, and action) are all arrows we want in our quiver. And come to think of it, they also happen to be the very character traits that engage and?dare I say?inspire us when we find ourselves shamelessly hooked on whatever cadaver-filled cable drama is animating our vicarious lives this week.

But Dutton?s assertion that we can learn from psychopaths might be a bit of stretch. It?s a provocative thesis, to be sure. But by pushing this line a bit too hard, he sometimes falls victim to the pervasive habit among popular psychology writers to turn every insight into a self-help strategy. Fortunately, that doesn?t make his treatment of the subject any less interesting.

You can scroll through the rest later, but frankly the review reads like a 12-year-old?s report on a book that should never have been assigned in the first place.

With all that said, I decided finally to suck it up and check out the 11:20 showing of Seven Psychopaths,?which fit in nicely with my Saturday-morning ritual at Panera Bread, which consists of waiting for Mr. Panera to get back to me about my suggestion for a new kind of bread, called simply ?bread.? I mean, I get to the counter, and suddenly I?m in a Monty Python sketch.

?May I help you??

?Yes. I?d like some bread, please.?

?Well, we have rye, amaranth, kamut, pumpernickel raisin, whole wheat, multigrain ??

?Just bread. I?d like some bread.? Which I don?t consider an unreasonable request. Given that the word bread is in the establishment?s name.

But she looks at me like I?m a psychopath.

Speaking of which.

Where was I? Oh, yes ?

So Martin (Colin Farrell) is an Irish screenwriter living in Hollywood and suffers from a wee bit of a drinking problem. But you knew that. Well, everyone else in this story does, and it becomes something of a running joke, except to his girlfriend, who abandons him after a particularly garish exchange. Martin?s latest script is called Seven Psychopaths, and isn?t he having a time coming up with seven worthy of screen time.

Martin?s best friend (sorta kinda) is Billy (Sam Rockwell), who has a whole bunch of ideas of his own for Martin?s screenplay. For example, how about a psychopath who just takes out ?middle-to-high-ranking members of the Italian-American Mafia. Or the Yakuza.? It?s almost ripped from the headlines, as the real Seven Psychopaths, the one we?re watching, starts off with a bang, as two hit men staking out a female mark are themselves offed by the masked ?Jack of Diamonds? serial killer.

Who is this killer of killers? Will he or she make it into Martin?s script?

But the Irishman?s at a crossroads, both spiritually and as a writer. He doesn?t want to craft just another shoot-em-up action flick. He wants to explore other themes, like peace and love and reconciliation. So a Buddhist would be a counterintuitive kind of psychopath. As would someone who?s Amish. Or a Quaker.

A story about a Quaker who hounds the born-again-in-prison murderer of his daughter is definitely a winner with Martin. The question then becomes, was the story Martin?s? Or Billy?s?

Or was it Hans? Hans (Christopher Walken) is a 63-year-old con artist who steals dogs in upper-crust neighborhoods only to return them to grateful owners for fat cash rewards. His wife, Myra, to whom Hans is absolutely devoted, is stricken with cancer, and begs Hans to get a job that ?just ain?t stealin?.?

?Doin? what?? Hans asks.

?A gov?mint job,? she replies.

?Gov?mint. A job that just ain?t stealin?. Gov?mint.?

Yeah, we get it.

Turns out Hans is friends with both Martin and Billy. In fact, is that shih-tzu Billy carries around with him one of the fancy dogs Hans has stolen from a would-be psychopath named Barney (Woody Harrelson)? Barney is certainly convinced it is, and has his henchmen chase down Hans and Martin to the kennel where the dogs are kept until it?s time to return them to their rightful owners. But before the bad guys (or, I should say, the badder guys) can put some metal in Hans?s and Martin?s heads, who walks in like the Lone Ranger, or Zorro, or the Green Hornet (take your pick) but the Jack-of-Diamonds killer, who offs Barney?s twosome and disappears into the Southern California scenery.

Well doesn?t this provide more fodder for Martin?s imagination? It seems you can?t throw a rock without hitting a psychopath in L.A. They soon start knocking on Martin?s door. Seems Billy, in another attempt to co-write Martin?s screenplay, has taken out an ad out in the trades: ?Wanted: Psychopaths.? One day Tom Waits shows up with a bunny rabbit in his arms and a story about how he and his wife decided to hunt down and murder serial killers.

But wait? Could this be the Jack-of-Diamonds killer? Could he be the Jack-of-Diamonds killer?

And of course there?s the Vietnamese ?priest? who hires a hooker to help him blow up a veterans? conference as part of a long-simmering plot to avenge the death of his family in the My Lai massacre. But is he real? Or part of a dream sequence Martin?s cooked up? Which psychopaths are in Martin?s head and which one?s are coming after him and his friends?

?This story has a lot of layers,? Hans says at one point.

Indeed it does. Worlds within worlds. But it all comes together as Martin, Hans, and Billy try and resolve this strange screenplay within a screenplay. Will it end with a bloody shootout, as Billy hopes, with Barney and his crew as the villains who ultimately bite the dust, literally in the desert? Or will Martin find a way to end the bloody cycle of vengeance for his psychopaths ? both real and imagined?

And why did Billy steal Barney?s dog?

At first you?re likely to analogize this Matryoshka doll of a plot to a Quentin Tarantino film ??Pulp Fiction comes to mind immediately. But it wouldn?t be right. Yes, there?s a lot of funny repartee, and even some pop-culture references, which are Tarantino?s forte. But McDonagh always has more on his mind. There?s a lot of religion here too.

?Hans is an old-time Christian,? says Billy. ?Not like those Fox News f?ks.? Hans often comforts himself with thoughts of heaven, especially in light of his beloved Myra?s health problems. But at a signal point in his spiritual life, he begins to doubt the existence of an afterlife. What if there?s no heaven, but just a great, gray room? A terrible place.

?Like England?? asks Martin.

?Not that bad,? replies Hans.

Hans asks Martin if he believes in heaven.

?I put a lot of heaven and hell in my stories. But I don?t know what I believe,? he says. This is the real writer, Martin McDonagh, talking about his own work certainly. Despite the farcical elements and absurd characters, the subtext of his scenarios is always whether there is such a thing as redemption in this life and the next, especially when you know you?ve done the very worst thing in the world and can?t quite wipe the blood off your hands.

Some may be made uneasy by how easily Christian talk sits side by side with foul language and brutal action, but I don?t believe McDonagh intends this as a slight or a smackdown but has caught on to how easily Americans have worked pious chatter into worldly matters. And in the hands of a less-gifted writer, you wouldn?t care a lick about these goony, self-destructive characters. But McDonagh doesn?t let you off the hook by distancing yourself from their absurd predicaments. Sure, the stupid shih-tzu that crazy Barney coming for is a MacGuffin, you know, a device to bring all the wackjobs into one room. But Jesus is here. Real sacrifice. Real self-giving. There?s a charm and a pathos to these lunatics. It shouldn?t be this way, but it is. There should be another story where these characters reside, one without all the cursing and the gore and the pointless death of loved ones. But this is where their maker has placed them.

So, do they lay down their guns, or do they fight for their lives? ?Gandhi was wrong,? says Billy. ?It?s just that nobody?s got the balls to come out and say it..?

No one will ever say that about Martin McDonagh. Not politically correct, he. Women are not treated very well here, but that?s actually part of the discussion Martin has about his own screenplay. When Hans points out how quickly the females are killed off, Martin becomes defensive. ?Women have it hard in this world,? he says in explanation

?Yeah, women have it hard,? replies Hans. ?But I know some who can at least string a few syllables together.?

I wouldn?t be too quick on the trigger to guess at McDonagh?s politics, however. No right winger, but no bleeding heart either, is my surmise. He?s his own thing. An empathetic realist, perhaps.

Also real is the big-boy language of this film, which is appalling. Not quite Kevin Smith ?OK, I?m leaving the theater now? appalling, because not explicitly sexual, but Quentin Tarantino as fed to David Mamet appalling. And there will be blood. Lots of it. And explicit scenes of violence, as in throat cuttings and head blastings.

And there are boobies.

If that?s a no-go for you, don?t go.

But I was in awe of what McDonagh was able to wring out of such B-material. It?s not the stuff of Oscars, perhaps, but the performances dance very close. Walken is a wonder as he bing-bongs dialogue with the unpredictable cadences of a man just learning the language. His Hans is lost somewhere between heaven and earth, and you believe him when he speaks of Jesus as Lord, even though the very next second he?s mouthing something grossly profane. Farrell is a perfect stand-in for the real Martin, a poet who can also be a bastard. Woody Harrelson is a potent mix of dog-loving eccentric and sociopathic killer.

But Sam Rockwell is from another planet. His performance is tailored to be as surprising as his character, and you want both to hug him and shoot him alternately.

So I guess what I?m saying is, I was wrong. There wasn?t one psychopath too many. It seems we?re all psychopaths of one kind or another, often because we?re blind to the ones in our very midst. At least that?s what Martin ? both the character and the filmmaker ? seems to be saying. Judge not lest ye be judged crazy too.

McDonagh should know. Only a psychopath could have fashioned this fantastic farrago of a tale.

May his tribe increase.

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Father of bone marrow transplant is dead at 92

E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and later won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, has died in Seattle at age 92.

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced the death Saturday. A spokesman said the cause was heart disease.

Thomas' work is among the greatest success stories in the treatment of cancer. Bone marrow transplantation and its sister therapy, blood stem cell transplantation, have improved the survival rates for some blood cancers to upward of 90 percent from almost zero.

This year, about 60,000 transplants will be performed worldwide, according to the Hutchinson Center.

"Imagine coming up with an idea, making it a reality and touching that many lives," said Dr. Fred Appelbaum, Thomas' friend and the director of the center's Clinical Research Division.

Thomas took after his father and became a doctor after getting his medical degree from Harvard. In 1956, he performed the first human bone marrow transplant.

Thomas, along with a small team of fellow researchers, including his wife Dottie, pursued transplantations throughout the 1960s and 1970s despite skepticism from the medical establishment.

They sought to cure blood cancers by destroying a patient's diseased bone marrow with near-lethal doses of radiation and chemotherapy and then rescuing the patient by transplanting healthy marrow. The aim was to establish a functioning and cancer-free blood and immune system.

The procedure would go on to become the standard treatment for many sufferers of leukemia and lymphoma.

"He was brilliant, he was incredibly generous and he was quick to deflect praise from himself to the individuals around him," Appelbaum said.

"At the same time, while he was quiet and modest, he was stubborn," he added. "He believed in what he was doing and he was going to make it happen. It's hard to imagine today how hard it was to make this reality because it was against the prevailing medical wisdom."

Thomas joined the University of Washington faculty in 1963. In 1974, he became the first director of medical oncology at the Hutchinson Center. It is now one of the world's top cancer treatment and research institutions.

Thomas also edited the first two editions of the bone marrow transplantations reference book, "Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation," which would become a bible for the field.

"To the world, Don Thomas will forever be known as the father of bone marrow transplantation, but to his colleagues at Fred Hutch he will be remembered as a friend, colleague, mentor and pioneer," Larry Corey, president of the research center, said in a statement.

Thomas is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.

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Reverend Charles E. Williams II: The Mis-Education of the Negro ...

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary." Carter G. Woodson, The Mis- Education of The Negro

Some black pastors have ventured to urge their congregations not to vote in this year's upcoming presidential election. Their so-called conflict over the election rests in the fact that President Obama made a personal declaration about his stance on civil unions. Every time I talk to a colleague who starts railing against same-sex marriage, I wonder why the vigor and interest in this subject are hardly ever matched by the same intensity around the immorality of unhealthy heterosexual marriage and fornication. Here are some stats that should alarm African Americans.

As reported by the Washington Post,

"Half of black women's first marriages end in divorce a rate higher than Asian and white women."

Seven out of 10 black women in their 20s have never married.

The percentage of black women over 55 never married rose to 13 percent.

At the same time,

Newsone reports

that 72 percent of black children are raised in a single-parent household.


These statistics are troubling, yet I can't remember the last time that I heard a pastor say, "we need to have a dialogue about why so many black women aren't married." Asking this question means we would have to dialogue further about the prison industrial complex and spend time talking and advocating against the prison pipeline that Michelle Alexander wrote about in her book The New Jim Crow. How much conversation have we had about why so many black men fulfill the role Motown's Temptations laid out in their classic song "Papa Was A Rolling Stone"? Maybe a serious conversation on infidelity would cause us to think critically about the breakdown in heterosexual marriage and about a society that discourages commitment, instead encouraging behavior celebrated in songs like Big Mike's "I'm just a playa playa."

The fact is the gay marriage conversation is subterfuge, nothing more than a political chess piece on Karl Rove and right-wing Republicans' game board. In a two-party system that pretty well splits the country in half, elections are determined by a few percentage points. Political parties take stances to attract swing voters and independent voters. Such persons should be wary, for, when they choose to go with the Republicans, they are not following a party that as a whole truly cares about moral values. Rather, they are following a party trying to find nifty ways to count swings and undecided in its voter base. If the Republican Party were actually a morally sound party, it would reject money from top republican contributor Paul Singer, who according to Politico.com, gave thousands of dollars to a Republican pro-gay political action committee called the American Unity Pac and just spent $250,000 in the pro-gay marriage ballot initiative.

If morality really were high on the plank of Republicans, how would they explain former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin having a baby out of wedlock? That's called fornication; somebody get the stone. So maybe those not yet decided for whom they will cast their votes and those in swing states should think twice about a Christian Conservative Republican Party. It seems to me that a lot of people are either being made a fool of or getting paid very well like Rev. Bill Owens, who admits that The National Organization for Marriage gives him $20,000 a year.

The fact is neither party truly cares about Christian morality, certainly not based on Old Testament scriptures. What seems instead to be driving both is power and control. Republicans care about power and control for the wealthy, while Democrats care about power and control for the not-so-wealthy.

So, to those Black pastors looking for a way to influence the world and stop the so-called epidemic of homosexuality, maybe you should start by working on the issues that cause bad heterosexual relationships that lead to single-parent households and teen pregnancy. Most of all you should be working on policies that play a role in the breakdown of communities and the Black family like; Jobs, education, healthcare, social security and the list goes on. As for me, I will not be a puppet for those who seek to Mis-educate nor Mis-direct me for their political gain.

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Halloween DIY: How to Make Squishy Circuits

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY: 2/10
AGES: 4+
BUILD TIME: 2 Hours
PARTS COST: $35-$40

Ingredients and Materials


? 3 cups white flour
? ? cup iodized salt
? 3 tablespoons cream of tartar
? 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
? Food coloring
? 1 cup tap water
? ? cup sugar
? ? cup distilled water
? Dry and liquid measuring cups and spoons
? 3-quart saucepan
? Two sturdy spatulas
? Waxed paper
? One medium ceramic or stainless-steel mixing bowl
? One 9-volt battery
? Two wire leads with alligator clips on each end
? 3-to-5-watt component LED bulbs in a variety of colors

Sculpt your Squishy Circuit Masterpiece


The Jarvis family made a skull with red LED eyes for Halloween. It consisted of two layers. The top one?the mask?was insulating dough. Because this was made with sugar and distilled water, both of which lack the ions that conduct electricity, the dough had an insulating effect. They placed the mask over two conductive dough strips separated by an insulating one. Conductive dough contains table salt and tap water, which form an ion-rich electrolyte; electricity passes, or is conducted, from ion to ion.

The insulating strip lies laterally beneath the eyes. The conductive strips were close together so the kids could stick the long and short legs of the LED into the positively and negatively charged dough, respectively, to complete the electrical circuit and light up the LEDs.

Create the Conductive Dough


1. Combine the dry ingredients in the saucepan: 1 cup flour, ? cup salt, and 3 tablespoons cream of tartar. Add 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, food coloring of choice, and 1 cup tap water and stir with a spatula.

2. Place the pan over low to medium heat and stir until the mixture is lumpy. Keep stirring, incorporating all of the ingredients, scraping the bottom of the pan so that they don't stick to it.

3. After the mixture forms a ball, set it aside to cool on waxed paper dusted with flour.

4. Gradually add about ? cup flour, kneading the dough until it is the consistency of Play-Doh.

Make the Insulating Dough


1. Combine 1 cup flour, ? cup sugar, and 3 tablespoons vegetable oil in a medium bowl and stir with a spatula.

2. Add food coloring of choice to ? cup distilled water.

3. Stir 1 tablespoon of the liquid at a time into the flour?sugar mixture and combine. Gradually alternate adding the remaining water and kneading in about ? cup flour until the texture is like Play-Doh.

Create the Circuit and Add Power and Lights

1. Roll two pieces of conductive dough and one piece of insulating dough into short cylinders like little hot dogs. Smush together the three pieces, with the insulating dough in the middle. Make sure that the pieces of conductive dough are not touching each other.

2. Clip one end of each electrical lead to the positive and negative battery terminals, and connect the other ends to the pieces of conductive dough.

2. Insert the shorter of the two prongs of an LED into the conductive dough attached to the negative terminal, and the longer prong into the positively charged dough. You have just completed the circuit, and the light should be glowing!

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The basis of an effective e-commerce website is how good it is able to convert online visitors into paying or buying customers. An e-commerce website with a lot of web traffic is good. But if it is not able to effectively make customers out of its visitors, then profits coming from the website should be out of the question. An e-commerce website earns by doing business with its online visitors.

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One of the important aspects of trying to build a successful and effective e-commerce website is trying to understand the typical online shopper. One of the things that an online business owner should consider that there are still a lot of people who may have second thought of buying things online.

Most of the people going online in fact do so in order to look for information. Only about three percent of those actually end up buying online. But this number is going up as more and more people feel comfortable buying products online, a hopeful sign for many e-commerce websites.

But in order to take advantage of the few who go online to buy, e-commerce websites must learn how to attract and appeal to such online visitors, enough to convince them to buy.

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Although most online visitors to e-commerce sites end up just looking, it is important for such sites to consider providing a good customer or visitor experience for everyone.

Online visitors who might find the site interesting enough may want to go for another visit a second time. After many visits, such regular visitors may just become customers. Building interest is important for a good e-commerce website.

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One of the ways to keep the interest of online visitors to a website is to provide information. Interesting information helps increase web traffic and the chances of making more people as online customers. Since more people look for information on the Internet, then providing it makes for a good e-commerce website.

Not only that, the information provided should also be easy to look for. What would be the use of information if people online cannot find it? Making information available and easily searchable makes it more effective online. One way to do this is by making the website search engine friendly and optimized.

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An effective e-commerce website should also be simple enough to go around with. A website filled with clutter can confuse online visitors to a degree that they might not have the patience to check out the website for that long. A simple website packed with information that visitors need would do more.

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

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Aereo opens its streaming TV to Mac and Windows web browsers

Aereo starts streaming TV to Mac and Windows web browsers

If you'd wanted to watch Aereo's unique antenna-to-internet TV streaming until today, you had to tune in from an iOS device or Roku box. That's not a lot of choice for placeshifting, is it? A fresh update to the company's streaming service has widened the choices considerably for New Yorkers to include all the major browsers on Macs and Windows PCs. As long as you're using a recent version of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or Safari, you can catch up on Ion or Telemundo while you're checking email. About the only restrictions left are the continued lack of Android support and occasional lawsuits from traditionalist broadcasters.

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Abbott says kidney drug study halted; shares drop

(Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories Inc said its partner, Reata Pharmaceuticals, was discontinuing a late-stage trial of their potential blockbuster treatment for chronic kidney disease and diabetes based on safety concerns raised by an independent safety committee.

The failure of the drug, bardoxolone, sent Abbott shares down 3.5 percent on Thursday. It came as a major setback just months before the planned January 1 spinoff of Abbott's branded prescription drugs into a separate publicly traded company called AbbVie. Without the high-profile drug, Wall Street concerns about AbbVie's dependence on Abbott's $8 billion-a-year rheumatoid arthritis drug, Humira, have intensified.

An independent data-monitoring committee found excess serious adverse events and mortality in patients taking the oral anti-inflammatory drug, Abbott said in a regulatory filing.

Regulators were notified of the decision, and study participants were being informed, the company said.

Thursday's stock selloff followed similar stock declines on Wednesday after Abbott reported disappointing third-quarter sales of Humira and disclosed that AbbVie's annual tax rate will be far higher than investors had expected, undermining AbbVie's future earnings.

Abbott's market valuation shrank by $9 billion over the two-day swoon.

"The bardoxolone blow-up could not come at a worse time," Jefferies & Co analyst Jeffrey Holford said in a research note. "Investors were already reeling from yesterday's update on the tax rate for AbbVie and now one of the more visible pipeline assets has disappeared just the next day."

But Holford reiterated his "buy" rating on Abbott, saying the drug would not have driven cash flow at AbbVie for the next few years, and that the setback should not impair the new drugmaker's future dividend or valuation.

J.P. Morgan analyst Michael Weinstein said bardoxolone and Abbott's experimental treatments for hepatitis C stand out as the two potential "multibillion-dollar pipeline opportunities" for AbbVie.

Bardoxolone had been expected to deliver revenue that could cushion Abbott if rival arthritis drugs cut in to Humira's growth, and also offset plunging sales of older Abbott drugs losing patent protection, Weinstein said.

"Bardoxolone (is) coming out of our model," Weinstein said, meaning he is no longer expecting any sales from the drug.

Cowen and Co had estimated bardoxolone could generate annual sales of more than $1 billion in the overseas territories where Abbott has rights to the drug, citing a potential market of 400,000 dialysis patients in Europe.

The failed trial, called BEACON, began in mid-2011 and involved 1,600 patients with type 2 diabetes and stage 4 chronic kidney disease. It was designed to assess whether bardoxolone could delay progression to the first event of end-stage renal disease, such as dialysis or death from cardiovascular causes.

Reata in September 2010 granted Abbott exclusive rights to develop bardoxolone outside the United States, excluding certain Asian markets.

Reata's drugs are designed to activate Nrf2, a protein believed to be a principal regulator of cellular antioxidation and detoxification enzymes, while suppressing NFkB, a primary regulator of inflammatory genes.

Abbott shares ended 3.5 percent lower at $66.64 on Thursday, after falling 4.4 percent on Wednesday.

When asked to identify the side effects and deaths, and whether the drug might be salvaged, Abbott said Reata was in charge of the study and would be the appropriate company to comment. But Reata spokesman David Sherzer also declined to comment.

(Reporting by Ransdell Pierson in New York, Esha Dey in Bangalore; editing by Sreejiraj Eluvangal, Theodore d'Afflisio and Matthew Lewis)

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Release of names in prostitution case stirs debate

Retired sheriff's deputy Paul Main poses in his shop at his home Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 in Alfred, Maine. Main's phone has been ringing off the hook since a person with his same name, accused of visiting a prostitute in Kennebunk, was released on Monday. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Retired sheriff's deputy Paul Main poses in his shop at his home Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 in Alfred, Maine. Main's phone has been ringing off the hook since a person with his same name, accused of visiting a prostitute in Kennebunk, was released on Monday. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Retired sheriff's deputy Paul Main poses in his shop at his home Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 in Alfred, Maine. Main's phone has been ringing off the hook since a person with his same name, accused of visiting a prostitute in Kennebunk, was released on Monday. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Retired sheriff's deputy Paul Main poses in his shop at his home Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 in Alfred, Maine. Main's phone has been ringing off the hook since a person with his same name, accused of visiting a prostitute in Kennebunk, was released on Monday. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2012 file photo, Alexis Wright, 29, turns towards her attorney Sarah Churchill, left, during her arraignment in Portland, Maine on 109 counts of prostitution, violation of privacy, tax evasion and other charges for allegedly providing sex for money at her Kennebunk fitness studio and office. The first batch of more than 100 men accused of paying a fitness instructor for sex were laying low after police began releasing their names in a small New England town where rumors have run rampant for weeks. Police on Monday released 21 names of men who were issued summons for engaging in prostitution with a 29-year-old Zumba instructor who's charged with turning her dance studio into a brothel in this seaside community and secretly videotaping her encounters. (AP Photo/Joel Page, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2012 file photo, a sign is seen near a marina in Kennebunk, Maine. The first batch of more than 100 men accused of paying a fitness instructor for sex were laying low after police began releasing their names in the small New England town where rumors have run rampant for weeks. Police on Monday released 21 names of men who were issued summons for engaging in prostitution with a 29-year-old Zumba instructor who's charged with turning her dance studio into a brothel in this seaside community and secretly videotaping her encounters. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

(AP) ? Paul Main's quiet evening was shattered by a phone ringing off the hook and a half-dozen TV crews showing up on his porch. Everyone wanted to know: Was he the same Paul Main who's been accused of visiting a prostitute in Kennebunk?

The answer was no. But a decision to release the names of alleged prostitution clients without any ages or addresses has caused big problems for men who have the same names as the accused.

For weeks, rumors about a prostitution business have run rampant in this small New England town best known for its proximity to the Bush family summer compound in neighboring Kennebunkport.

On Monday, authorities released the first batch of names out of more than 150 men accused of paying a Zumba fitness instructor for sex.

"I don't have a problem with releasing names. I think it's a wonderful thing, but I'll be darned if it's right to do it in a shoddy manner," said Main, a retired spokesman and head of the detective division for the York County Sheriff's Department.

The addresses, ages and other identifying information of the johns were withheld after a judge ruled that state law required them to be kept confidential because the alleged sexual encounters may have been videotaped, making the men potential victims of privacy invasion.

On Tuesday, Superior Court Justice Thomas Warren reversed his decision, ruling in favor of a request from The Portland Press Herald newspaper that sought the release of the addresses and other information.

Kennebunk police re-issued the names with the added details. The revised list included former South Portland Mayor James Soule and suspects from more than a dozen towns in Maine, as well as one from Boston and another from New Hampshire. The men ranged in age from 34 to 65 and also included a lawyer, a forester and a real estate appraiser.

Soule did not return calls to his home and business, and no one answered door at his home.

Before the extra information was released, the lack of addresses and dates of birth made it impossible to verify exactly who was among the accused. Most records released by police and courts have that information.

The Associated Press declined to distribute the names until the suspects' precise identities could be confirmed. None of those who have matching names returned calls.

But many media outlets released the first list, causing problems for men like Main, whose name is shared by at least 20 others in Maine alone.

The town had been awaiting the release of the list since 29-year-old Alexis Wright was charged this month with engaging in prostitution in her dance studio and in an office across the street and secretly videotaping many of her encounters. Police said she kept meticulous records suggesting the sex acts generated $150,000 over 18 months.

Wright, from nearby Wells, has pleaded not guilty to 106 counts of prostitution and other charges. Her business partner also pleaded not guilty to 59 counts.

Police released the first 21 names Monday evening. The list was then revised to include the men's middle initials. Main's middle initial was different from the Paul Main who was listed.

Stephen Schwartz, a Portland lawyer who represents two of Wright's alleged customers, argued that the names and addresses of the alleged johns should be kept private.

Warren declined to keep the names secret but at first agreed with Schwartz's contention that if persons charged with paying a prostitute are also possible victims of invasion of privacy, then their addresses should be confidential under Maine law.

Press Herald attorney Sigmund Schutz argued Tuesday that releasing only partial information was unfair to people not on the list.

"The fact is that by releasing names only, you're getting a lot of false positives. You're implicating people who may be completely innocent and simply share the same or similar names with people charged, and that's a real harm," Schutz told the AP.

In southern Maine, two TV stations, one daily newspaper and a weekly newspaper published the list. Several others, including newspapers in Maine's three largest cities, withheld the names.

Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based journalism think tank, said that just because a name becomes public doesn't mean news organizations have to race to publish it.

"What journalistic purpose is served by publishing the name, and how do you balance that against the harm that may be done to these people, their families, their children?"

Clark said the situation would be different if the name of a public figure appeared.

"If the police chief is on the list, if the school superintendent on the list, I would approach those people directly and try to determine whether their actions are not just a personal moral failure but climb to the level of social, public hypocrisy," he said.

The Kennebunk Police Department plans to release the names of johns who've received summonses on a bi-weekly activity log, meaning the disclosure of names could continue until the end of the year. The next batch is due to be released Oct. 26.

As a former law enforcement officer, Main said releasing the names helps hold suspects accountable for their misdeeds. But, he added, other information should be released as well to protect those whose only connection to the case is having a common name.

"I don't want to see other people going through the same thing that I've been through," he said.

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Associated Press writers David Sharp in Portland and Glenn Adams in Augusta contributed to this report.

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